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nvidia-graphics-drivers-535 package

  1. Bug #2027614
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 2027614

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Tod Hagan (tod222) wrote (last edit ):

Confirmed. The last two (or three) routine system upgrades that had new nvidia packages have black screened during the upgrade.

This is a desktop. I can still log in via ssh from a laptop. Running 'top' shows:

Tasks: 627 total, 4 running, 623 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 1.0 us, 11.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 87.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 64209.0 total, 17847.4 free, 19228.6 used, 27133.0 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 976.0 total, 856.4 free, 119.6 used. 42589.7 avail Mem

    PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    513 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 9:42.51 nvidia-modeset/
   4193 gdm 20 0 4108568 204204 66536 R 100.0 0.3 12:40.42 gnome-shell
   4795 root 20 0 24.7g 415668 262976 R 100.0 0.6 650:08.69 Xorg

Running 'ps' and grepping 'update':

  11859 ? Sl 0:10 update-notifier
1803241 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-notifier-crash
1884567 pts/13 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto -E update
3857507 ? SNl 0:05 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update --no-focus-on-map
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Doing 'shutdown -r now' logs out ssh but doesn't reboot the machine. After waiting, pressing the hardware reset button on the case has no effect. It doesn't restart until a power down and cold boot.

I created a prevboot.txt from the instructions in an earlier comment; it is attached. It looks interesting, but I'll leave the analysis to the experts.